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Calumet Park, Illinois

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Calumet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60827. It stands on Midlothian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blue Island quadrangle. 7,025 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Calumet Park within Cook County

Population over time

2 figures

Calumet Park fell from 7,835 to 7,025 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20107,835
20207,025-810 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

In the county-history sources

104,760 words on this township

History of Cook County, Illinois. From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Calumet Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Calumet Township - 104,760 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Calumet Park: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Markham City Dept. of Public WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Yard No. 22 Clay PitClayPast Producer
Yard R Clay PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calumet Park in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCalumet Park-Trees and fence panels were blown down.
July 2023Flash FloodCalumet Park-Multiple public reports were received of flooding of travel lanes on I-57 southbound between Chicago and Blue Island. Traffic cameras showed standing water and slow traffic.

Every storm recorded in Cook County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Blue Island1.1 miles25
Placerdale1.4 miles25
West Pullman1.5 miles25
Stewart Ridge1.6 miles25
Gano1.8 miles25
Morgan Park1.9 miles25
Dixmoor2.1 miles25
Posen2.4 miles25

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Calumet ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2398391The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 405377. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.